i retarded my dizzy just about half pass of where it use to be. Will it be alright to leave it like that? or will it mess anything up? i retarded it because someone told me it would help my NOx on my emissions testing. should i set it back to where it's suppose to be after im done? with the emissions, or can leave it ? thanks

 

buy a timing light and a helm manual

 

yeah, buy a timing light. Did you at least make a mark before you messed with it, so that you can set it back to where it was before?

BTW, I don't think retarding the dizzy will help your emissions. I did hear that advancing it does.

 

you dont gotta buy a timing light .. espically if your not tryin to be precise.. just let the car run at idle after its warm .. then play with the dizzy and you can hear the idlle go up and down ..as you retard the idle will go down.

 

please keep misguided advice to yourself. the way that you mentioned he adjust his timing could be very detrimental to his motor. in other words ka-boom.

 

my motor has been fully advanced, and fully retarded, and it has ran fine. no kabooms here.

 

the only time ive ever heard of someones motor blowing because of timing is when they were running N2O.

retarding your timing does help with emissions in some cases. mainly for the reason that when you retard your timing, your idle goes lower, thus helping you pass the idle test, as far as load tests, the same principal applies, even though the car will run like crap and probably not start up again if it dies, until you reset the timing.

 

misguided? motor goin kaboom because of retarded timing? thats the lamest thing i ever heard.

 

you said:

so you should set the timing based on the idle? how do you know what idle speed produces what timing? Have you ever driven up a hill at low rpm's and high load in a car that had the timing advanced too far? It goes *ping* *ping* *ping*. That is the sound of detonation and also the sound of a broken engine if its not caught in time. BTW ka-boom is a dramatic way of saying this is a bad ******* idea.



[Modified by racerxadam, 11:04 PM 11/14/2002]

 

[QUOTE].. espically if your not tryin to be precise.. QUOTE]
if you gonna try to quote me dont do it half ***.

 

there happy. but the fact remains that timing happens to be something that should be precise. we're not talking a range of 0-100 its more like 12-18 degrees and one degree can make a huge difference. setting the timing by listening to the idle is still misguided information.